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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott von Laven; X. Qian; A. Jalloh; Zheng-Tao Deng; Amir Mobasher; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

Alabama Supercomputer Authority Huntsville, Alabama E-Mail: scott@asc.eduAbstractThe power and utility of personal computers continues to grow exponentially through (1)advances in computing capabilities through newer microprocessors, (2) advances in microchiptechnologies, (3) electronic packaging, and (4) cost effective gigabyte-size hard-drive capacity.The engineering curriculum must not only incorporate aspects of these advances as subjectmatter, but must also leverage technological breakthroughs to keep programs competitive interms of their infrastructure (i.e., delivery mechanisms, teaching tools, etc.).An aspect of these computing advances is computer modeling and

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen R. McNeill; Jed S. Lyons

Recrystallizaiton Behavior and Grain Size Distribution in Titanium”, Metallurgical Transactions A, 16A, 703 (1985). Biographical InformationJed Lyons. As an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at USC, he teaches engineering materials,manufacturing processes and mechanical design. Recent research areas include high temperature crack growth insuperalloys and viscoelastic behavior of thermoplastics. Educational projects include developing mechanicalengineering laboratories and leading the NSF Gateway Coalition's Materials Program Area team.Stephen McNeill. As an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at USC, he teaches senior design,mechatronics, introduction to engineering, statics and solids. He is currently developing WEB

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Control in the Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Clough

workshops and“teaching/coaching by walking around.” Learning outcomes and student satisfaction haveimproved greatly in this course, which, in general, has always been highly rated by students.The laboratory component of the Instrumentation and Process Control course presented anorganizational challenge. Nominally, 60 students are enrolled in this course each spring Page 7.1166.43 There is also a traditional and wide gap in process control education between what is “covered” and what is“learned.” Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2002

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Chemical Engineering Division Poster Session

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth M. Hill, University of Minnesota - Duluth

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Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #16397Setting Student Safety Knowledge to PracticeProf. Elizabeth M. Hill, University of Minnesota - Duluth Dr. Hill is focused on active learning teaching methods and research for engineering education. After receiving her Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Dr. Hill spent several years working on polymer processing research and advanced materials manufacturing. She has an extensive background in system development for water purification as well as membrane manufacturing. She is an avid hiker and enjoys spending time with her family in the Boundry Waters Canoe Area of Minnesota

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1999 Annual Conference

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M. R. Smith

right.Bibliography[1] W. Humphries, “Discipline for Software Engineering”, Prentice Hall , 1995MIKE SMITHMike Smith is a professor at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He teaches undergraduate courses inintroductory and advanced microprocessor concepts. He is continually in “acquisition mode” for equipment toupdate his teaching laboratories. In addition to doing biomedical and software engineering research, Mike takes his“hands-on” microprocessor laboratories and reworks them for commercial magazines such as Circuit Cellar Ink.These publications are useful resource material for students and a major reason that recent “persuasions” have beensuccessful from Software Development Systems (U.K.), Advanced Micro Devices and Analog Devices (U.S

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. Roemer, University of Utah; Debra J. Mascaro, University of Utah; Eric R. Pardyjak, University of Utah; Stacy Bamberg, University of Utah

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NSF Grantees

examples into the Numerical Methods lectures, laboratory tutorials, and homeworkassignments. These examples are expected to not only increase students’ understandingof and appreciation for numerical techniques but also improve comprehension of fluidscontent in the junior year. The new laboratory experiences equip students for thesustainability-themed design project by teaching CAD skills, manufacturing techniques,and microcontroller-based actuation and sensing. Finally, the design project enablesimmediate application of the engineering science principles (i.e., Numerical Methods andThermodynamics) being taught in the new course sequence, where the hands-oncomponent is expected to enhance learning and improve retention in the

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Crimaldi; Daniel Knight

. The laboratory treatment was used in addition to atraditional lecture-based treatment of the topic. Assessment methods including a contentknowledge test and attitude surveys were used to examine the impact of the module on studentlearning and interest in engineering. Results revealed that the instructional module had addedvalue over the lecture for increasing students’ content knowledge (+50%). In addition, thevisualization module received a significantly higher rating on the attitude survey than the lecturemethod for level of enjoyment, learning of content, and the development of interest inengineering.Introduction One of the principal challenges of teaching fluid mechanics is the level of abstraction thatcomes with the subject

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Track 1: Technical Session 1: Supporting Engineering Graduate Students to Create Inclusive Learning Environments: A Professional Development Program at a Hispanic-Serving Institution

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2025 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Katherine R. McCance, The University of Texas at San Antonio

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2025 CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

their teaching throughout theprogram. However, only one graduate student was a TA and had full access to undergraduaterecitation sessions; two other graduate students were teaching assistants but were involved withgrading and minimal classroom instruction. For this reason, the focus of the program was shiftedtoward learning about and discussing inclusive teaching, and away from implementation andformative feedback. In future iterations, consistent classroom, laboratory, and/or recitationinstruction will be a criterion to participate. It is expected that the TAs’ real-time classroomexperiences and the feedback cycle will generate rich discussion, challenge TAs’ thinking aboutinclusion and equity in STEM, and enhance TA and undergraduate

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How We Tackled the Pandemic

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Amir Karimi P.E., The University of Texas at San Antonio; Randall D. Manteufel, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Jose Francisco Herbert Acero, The University of Texas at San Antonio

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Mechanical Engineering

the help of Teaching Assistants (TAs). The course depended on multiple contentsthat were digitized before the pandemic started, therefore, the transition to online instruction was notchallenging for the lecture component, but the laboratory component was significantly impacted, asthe hands-on component could not be replaced for most laboratory activities due to theinaccessibility to laboratory equipment.The instructor and the TAs decided to use BCU for online instruction. Access to the BCU platformwas free of charge for both instructors and students. The most important features of the BCUplatform include: (1) recording of live online lecture and laboratory sessions; (2) using microphoneand webcam to communicate and to display course materials

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

Authors

Daniel Bullock; Edward Carl Greco; Jim D. Reasoner

. 7 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Zone III Conference (Gulf Southwest – Midwest – North Midwest Sections)References 1. S.A. Ambrose, M.W. Bridges, M. DiPietro, M.C. Lovett, M.K. Norman. How Learning Works: Seven Research 2. Based Principles for Smart Teaching. Jossey-Bass, (John Wiley & Sons), 2010. 3. Clough, Michael, Using the Laboratory to Enhance Student Learning, NSTA Press, Arlington, VA, 2002. 4. Sheri D. Sheppard, Kelly Macatangay, Anne Colby and William M. Sullivan, Educating Engineers: Designing for the Future of the Field

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Collaborations, Accreditation and Articulation Issues for International Engineering Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yuemin Zhao, China University of Mining & Technology; You-jun Tao, China University of Mining & Technology

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International

, and it has been important base for personnel training and scientificresearch of mineral processing in China, and has a higher international outstanding academicand influence. The major has achieved outstanding achievement in undergraduate teaching,experiments and practice teaching. It has two national content courses of ‘mineralprocessing subject’ and ‘concentration plant design’, six of them are top-quality coursesof Jiangsu; Laboratory of mineral processing is the key laboratory of ministry of education.And in 2009, it was awarded as national experimental teaching demonstration centers withmining engineering and safety engineering, and it has formed a training system of mineralprocessing to adapt the new century. Nearly 60 years

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2021 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Conference

Authors

Belinda B. Wang P. Eng., University of Toronto

Paper ID #35285A large integrated online hardware design courseProf. Belinda B. Wang P. Eng., University of Toronto Belinda B. Wang received the B. A. Sc. degree (with honors) in 1986 and subsequently the M. Eng. degree in 1990 in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto. She joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Toronto as a Tutor in 1986 teaching/coordinating tutorials and laboratories. She also held the position of Manager, PC network from 1988 to 1991 managing the departmental undergraduate computer networks. She was promoted to Senior Tutor in 1992 and then to

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Mattox; Bahador Ghahramani

math and science specialists in these grades. Becauseclassroom instruction may now be linked to unlimited virtual resources through readyconnection to the worldwide web, the potential exists to bring extensive math and scienceexpertise to the support of teachers and students in math and science education. To begin torealize this potential we are developing web-based teaching science concept modules forstudents and teachers alike, which are oriented to the four most widely recognized learningstyles of students. Developing modules will be systematically keyed to existing, publicschool lesson plans, therein serving as reference sources for teachers and follow-up sites forstudents with web access. Self-paced, follow-up learning can take place

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NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hakan Gurocak, Washington State University, Vancouver; Ashley Ater Kranov, ABET; Rochelle Letrice Williams, ABET

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

accreditation activities, taught at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and conducted faculty development workshops on teaching and assessment worldwide.Dr. Rochelle Letrice Williams, ABET Rochelle Williams recently joined the ABET headquarters staff as the Educational Research and As- sessment Manager in the Professional Services Department. In this role, Williams manages ABET’s educational offerings on a global scale and leads technical education research projects. Prior to joining ABET, Williams held two positions at Baton Rouge Community College: Science Laboratory Manager and Adjunct Faculty in the Mathematics Department. In addition, Williams has worked closely with the National Science Foundation’s Next

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ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

H. Scott Fogler; Michael Cutlip; C. Stewart Slater

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationPurpose of the Summer SchoolThe main purpose of the Summer School for Chemical Engineering Faculty is to disseminateinnovative and effective teaching methods to a wide spectrum of primarily new chemicalengineering faculty who will be teaching courses and laboratories in undergraduate programs.Additionally, the Summer School introduces new faculty to a number of promising researchareas in which concepts, principles, problems, and laboratory experiments can be incorporatedinto undergraduate coursework. The Summer School also brings new faculty together with midcareer and senior faculty to discuss educational

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Tips and Tricks for Actively Engaging Students

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daria Gerasimova, George Mason University; Margret Hjalmarson, George Mason University; Jill K. Nelson, George Mason University

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New Engineering Educators

, and the IEEE Signal Processing, Communications, and Education Societies. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Profiles of Participation Outcomes in Faculty Learning CommunitiesIntroduction Significant evidence suggests that undergraduate education in science, technology,engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines needs to be improved 1–4. Research oneffective teaching has recognized interactive teaching and active learning as effective tools inadvancing STEM education: they promote both student achievement 5 and conceptualunderstanding of the material 6. However, despite the growing body of research that supports thistype of teaching, traditional lecturing still prevails in college

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2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Hector A. Ochoa; Mukul V. Shirvaikar

breakdown of the board specifics and programming languageare based on Xilinx or Altera technology. Several of the (VHDL or Verilog) used by the surveyed institutions is notvendors and universities provide laboratory curriculum to help currently available but planned for the near future. The overallcourse development. Table 2 is a list of the development goal of this paper is not to impose on faculty members theboards used at the institution to teach digital systems using the methodology to revamp the course. On the contrary, it isHDL approach. While compiling the information it became designed to serve as a repository of useful information in aclear that there is not a standard/preferred used for this

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Shawn Gross

variability associated with stability calculations ascompared to tensile material strength. The numerical values used in the exercise lead students tothe “correct” results when the joist is tested in the laboratory. The values also allow for differentrespective members to have the highest design stress ratios and failure stress ratios; the memberthat controls the design based on allowable stresses is not the member that is predicted toactually fail first.After all of the calculation steps are completed, the entire class takes the 15-minute walk acrosscampus to the Structural Engineering Teaching and Research Laboratory, SETRL. Prior totesting, the instructors introduce the students to the testing frame, hydraulic loading equipment,instrumentation

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Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 12

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexander M. Wyglinski, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Travis Fredrick Collins, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Robin Getz, Analog Devices

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Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #18912Sample-Based Understanding of Wireless Transceivers and Digital Transmis-sion Via Software-Defined RadioProf. Alexander M. Wyglinski, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Alexander M. Wyglinski is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and an Asso- ciate Professor of Robotics Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), as well as Director of the Wireless Innovation Laboratory (WI Lab). He received his Ph.D. degree from McGill University in 2005, his M.S. degree from Queens University at Kingston in 2000, and his B.Eng. degree from McGill University in 1999, all in electrical

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Szaroletta; Lloyd Ewing; Nancy L. Denton

Session 2168 Analog to Digital Mechanics Lab Conversion: Lessons Learned Nancy Denton, Bill Szaroletta, Lloyd Ewing Purdue UniversityAbstractTo upgrade the laboratory supporting an introductory sophomore-level strength of materials courseto reflect current industry practice and address student requests, the authors have begun convertingthe current experiments from analog instrumentation with hand-recorded data to NationalInstruments LabVIEW based testing. This paper reviews the challenges encountered during theconversion of one experiment; a three-point beam bending experiment

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafael Rodriguez-Solis; Rafael Medina; Jose Colom

Session 2632 INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING: A NEW FRESHMAN COURSE AT UPR-MAYAGUEZ José G. Colom-Ustáriz, Rafael Medina, Rafael Rodrígez Solís University of Puerto Rico at MayaguezI. IntroductionA course introducing electrical engineering to freshman students has been created at Universityof Puerto Rico Mayaguez (UPRM). The course consists of one-hour lecture followed by a twohours lab experience once a week. The students are introduced to five areas of specializationthrough discussion of basic concepts in class and real life applications in the laboratory. Thelaboratory

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Amir Mirmiran

Session 1526 NDT and Instrumentation In an Undergraduate Concrete Lab Amir Mirmiran University of Central FloridaABSTRACTThe first year implementation of an NSF-ILI project for enhancing the concrete lab with NDT andinstrumentation modules is discussed. A two-semester laboratory is developed to parallel the lecturesin the two concrete courses; namely, Reinforced Concrete Structures and Concrete Design project.The new laboratory has significantly increased students’ interest in, and learning from, the courses.INTRODUCTIONUniversity of Central Florida is a member of the

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A Renaissance in NRE Programs

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

G. Maldonado; Christenson John; Eugene Rutz

in these two programs, to provide a statusreport on their ongoing progress, and to highlight a few of the mechanisms that have led to the successof these graduate school “feeder” programs. Also, this article highlights some details within theseprograms that directly address one or more of the specific areas of interest to this special session andits audience, such as: • Use of distance learning in nuclear engineering, • Utilizing laboratory experiences to facilitate student learning, and • University nuclear engineering program interactions with industry and national laboratories. Page 10.37.1 “Proceedings of

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Instructional Innovations and Global Issues in Architectural Engineering Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James P. Mwangi P.E., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Architectural

Paper ID #6624Structural Elective Course for Special Building SystemsDr. James P. Mwangi P.E., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Dr. James Mwangi received his Bachelor’s of Science degree from the University of Nairobi at Kenya, a Master’s of Science degree from the University of Lagos at Nigeria and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of California, Davis, all in in Civil Engineering (structures). Dr. Mwangi is currently an associate professor in the Architectural Engineering Department at California Polytechnic State Uni- versity, San Luis Obispo. He teaches undergraduate and

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Distance Learning in ET Programs

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gonca Altuger-Genc, State University of New York, Farmingdale; Jeff Hung, Farmingdale State College

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Diversity

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Engineering Technology

addition, online coursesettings allow students to learn the course materials at their own pace without being forced tofollow the pace of the instructor or the class [4-6].Although online education has its own advantages, the effectiveness of student experience inonline settings compared to in-class settings is questionable. Researchers around the world havebeen studying the effectiveness of online education [7-10]. Traditional in-class setting is in aprofessor-centered learning environment; where the professor teaches the theoretical componentof the course and explains the materials to the students directly within the limited class hours.Also, the practicum component is carried through the hands-on laboratory setting. Theinteraction in this

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NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hakan Gurocak, Washington State University, Vancouver; Ashley Ater Kranov, Washington State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

academic programs and the needs ofthe graduates and industry. The academic programs are heavily oriented towards control theory,board-level electronics, interfacing and microprocessors supplemented with laboratoryequipment, such as the inverted pendulum, and projects, such as Lego robots5-7. But industrialapplications require mechanical engineers to design machines with multiple axes that executecomplex, high speed, high precision coordinated motion using sophisticated motion controllers.In this paper, we present overview of a new course and its laboratory developed in partnershipwith industry. The course aims to teach “the fundamentals” while focusing on industrial motioncontrol technology and multi-axis machines. The course was offered for the

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1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

Arnold M. Flikke

. China is now rebuilding the undergraduate programs back to the levelsof pre-revolution standards. This past summer, most reopened institutionsgraduated their first class since the cultural revolution. Simultaneously,the Chinese are trying to complete the interrupted training of theirmiddle level faculty and to rebuild the basic infrastructure of itsbuildings and laboratories. It is important to recall that the Chinese have been heavily in-fluenced by the Russian model in the development of its universitiesand research institutions. China currently has rather rigidly separated 98institutions for teaching and for research. This bureaucratic struc-ture of the Chinese system creates problems in reaching

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 1

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy J. Garrison, York College of Pennsylvania

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Engineering Physics & Physics

conceptual knowledge.7 Other studies have looked at changing/enhancing theexperimental/laboratory component.6,8Physics education research has also focused on developing quantitative methods that can be usedto assess the effectiveness of the traditional teaching structure as well as the impact of newteaching strategies. Those efforts led to the development of a number of standardized physicsassessment tests.9,10 Via administration of the assessment tests, numerous physics educators haveshown that active learning methods and improved laboratory experiences provide substantialgains over the traditional lecture/lab format. Details of these methods, their assessment, and theevolution of physics education research have been documented in several books on

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2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Shannon L. Servoss; Edgar C. Clausen

Incorporating Inquiry-Based Projects into the Early Lab Experience Shannon L. Servoss and Edgar C. Clausen Ralph E. Martin Department of Chemical Engineering University of ArkansasAbstractIn using the traditional approach for teaching laboratory, the instructor provides detailedinstructions for completing the lab and, after performing the lab, students report results in eithera written or oral report. This approach effectively introduces the techniques and technicalwriting skills required of all engineers, but the process also has a tendency to become a bitredundant for both the instructor and the students

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Pedagogy in Physics Education, Engineering Physics and Physics Division (EP2D) Technical Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frank Efe; Antony Kinyua, Morgan State University; Ezana Negusse; Neda Bazyar Shourabi, Pennsylvania State University, Berks ; Pelumi Olaitan Abiodun, Morgan State University; Hannah Abedoh, Morgan State University; Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University; Arnesto Bowman, Morgan State University

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Diversity

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division (EP2D)

measures. Here, we present a comparison of the efficacy of a hands-on integratedmode of conducting physics experiments via experiment-centric pedagogy (ECP) with thetraditional laboratory mode (non-ECP) of teaching undergraduate students enrolled in theIntroduction to Physics Experiment. We conclude that these two approaches are complementaryto one another. Undergraduate students who were enrolled in the Introduction to Physicslaboratory practical (N = 30) were a case study to elicit their epistemological beliefs aboutphysics laboratory work and their views on social engagement and academic anxiety. Parametricand nonparametric comparisons of central tendency were employed to measure the meandifferences between students using the ECP mode and non